After
initial reports of
Isiah Thomas' sleeping pill overdose seemed to do nothing but
conflict each other, we're finally getting what should be some credible information on the matter.
The New York Times is quoting the Harrison, NY Police Chief, David Hall, as saying that Thomas
flat-out lied when he said that it was his daughter who was hospitalized, and that Thomas himself was absolutely the one taken in for medical attention.
"I understand that this person claims it was his daughter; he is lying," Hall said. "It was definitely not his daughter, it was a male. We know the difference between a 47-year-old black male and a young black female."
"We administered oxygen and we loaded him into an ambulance," Hall said. "He was unconscious, but breathing. So we are calling this an accidental overdose of a prescription sleeping pill." Hall added, "We aren't mind readers, so we don't know why he did it, but there was nothing to indicate a suicide, no notes left."
Since the local police have no motive to lie about who was hospitalized and who wasn't, I'm going to take Hall's word on this one. Which begs the question: why lie (and have your family lie) about the particulars of the incident? This is the New York media we're dealing with; you
know they won't let a story die if there's even a hint of something fishy going on, so I can't imagine why you wouldn't want to come clean from the very beginning. Especially if this was completely accidental, as the authorities are saying.
After Thomas' disastrous run as coach of the Knicks, his embarrassing involvement in a sexual harassment law suit, and now his lying to the media about his own overdose and implicating his daughter in the process, it's difficult to imagine how we'd have a positive piece of news to report about Isiah Thomas ever again.
Lance Stephenson is one of the top high school players in the country. He was a McDonald's All-American. He is also just about the only major recruit not running screaming from the rubble of USC that is without a college destination.
There have been many debates over the MVP award over the last few years -- from Kobe v. LeBron to the merits of Steve Nash's back-to-back awards. You can debate all you want about who should have won each year's MVP, but it is clear that a particular season's MVP is no longer likely to have playoff success. 
TEQUESTA, Fla. -- This looked like a Bad Boys reunion.
Isiah Thomas once cornered me in a hallway and issued a warning, mob-boss-like. "If you squeeze me again, you'll be sorry," he said. I'm not certain what warranted the threat -- and it's nice to know I haven't awakened to a horse's head in my bed -- but it was a classic snapshot of what King Isiah was like when he ruled the world, when he was a two-time NBA champion, when he was the best little man who ever played the game.
With only one year left on his contract to do, uh, nothing with the New York Knicks, Isiah Thomas has opted to take the head coaching job at Florida International University. 
This is almost too good to be true. Isiah Thomas appears poised to take the head coaching job of Florida International. This, despite no experience in coaching or recruiting in college basketball.
Stop ringing Thursday's alarm system, y'all, as Isiah Thomas will not be drawing a paycheck from the Los Angeles Clippers any time soon. In fact, reports Lisa Dillman of the Los Angeles Times (via CN), Isiah approached the Clippers asking to work for them pro bono because his daughter will attend college in Southern California next season.
Few terms in the NBA lexicon draw more guffaws of pity than "Los Angeles Clippers." One term which certainly has a case would be "Isiah Thomas." In fact, in a tournament of Most Hilariously Bad Things About the NBA, the Clips and Isiah would assuredly be one seeds (along with Darko Milicic and the microfiber ball).
